Trevor English

Trevor English is the Product Marketing Manager for Autodesk's Desktop Hydraulic Modeling Solutions and is a leading technology communicator. After working as a civil engineer in hydraulic modeling for many years, Trevor transitioned into journalism, where he became the Editor and Chief of Interesting Engineering, one of the leading STEM online publications. From there, he joined Autodesk on the Design and Manufacturing product marketing team, growing the adoption of digital transformation in the product design and automotive space. Trevor's work has been featured in the BBC, Discovery, How Stuff Works, and other top publications on the web. Trevor is also a STEM video producer and technology communicator, with a YouTube channel, Concerning Reality, having over 200,000 subscribers and 35 million views. He's passionate about the water industry and understanding the challenges engineers face in the space.

  • How do fire hydrants work? Why are they sometimes different colors?

    Fire hydrants are all around us. These above-ground pipe fittings can supply flows upwards of 1,500 gallons per minute to save lives and put out fires across the world. We all know what fire hydrants do, but how do they work? And why are they sometimes different colors? Called fireplugs, fire pumps, johnny pumps, or…

    Water distribution

  • Risk Analysis Runs for cloud and copying cloud simulation results in InfoWorks ICM 2025.5

    InfoWorks 2025.5 is here, marking the last release of the 2024 calendar year. With it comes new abilities to copy cloud simulation results, run risk analysis on cloud databases, and improved NetCDF file formats for TSD objects. In this post, we’re going to walk through what each of these improvements mean for InfoWorks ICM users,…

    Product news

  • Simulation Health Reporting now available in InfoDrainage 2025.5

    Troubleshooting is an annoying necessity of hydraulic modeling. Why couldn’t my model just work right the first time!? Well, we feel your pain, and we want to make the model troubleshooting process even easier for you. With our new Simulation Health Reporting feature inside InfoDrainage 2025.5, the identification of continuity and convergence errors within hydraulic…

    Product news

  • Integrated highway design with the Civil 3D + InfoDrainage end-to-end workflow

    Transportation infrastructure like highways and roadways remains a vital component of modern engineering work, but – as any highway designer knows – with it comes a series of rigid guidelines for drainage and regulatory compliance. Autodesk has long been helping engineers and designers build better highways, and part of that mission is delivering drainage design…

    Drainage design

  • The path to digital transformation in water infrastructure is becoming more clear

    The water industry is undergoing a state of rapid change, which will only speed up as the climate shifts. GHD research estimates that droughts, floods and storms could wipe $5.6 trillion from the GDP of world’s top economies by 2050. Are we prepared as an industry for the challenges that are unfolding? Way back in…

    Sustainability

  • Great Scott – it’s a webinar! ‘How Autodesk is Shaping the Future of Stormwater, Wastewater & Distribution’

    To quote Marty McFly, “I have to tell you about the future!” And, while you can’t just walk into a store and buy plutonium in today’s world like you could in the future in Back to the Future, you can register for our webinar to see into the future – the future of Autodesk’s desktop…

    Events

  • Land use and soil type incorporated into sub-catchments in InfoDrainage 2025.4

    It’s almost that time of the year where we start singing “I’m dreaming of… land use and soil type polygons.” If that wasn’t how you thought the song went, then you may not be a drainage designer. When it comes to hydraulic modeling, our goal is always to model our networks and systems as accurately…

    Product news

  • How 2D mesh histograms lead to better model stability in InfoWorks ICM 2025.4

    InfoWorks ICM 2025.4 is here, delivering reporting and scripting enhancements, a new free viewer, and – significantly – 2D mesh element histograms for improved model stability, speed and results accuracy. As you know, hydraulic modeling involves some complex math on the back end. Given this, modeling software usually splits the properties of any given surface…

    Product news

  • InfoWorks WS Pro 2025.4 makes already-fast cloud simulations even faster

    The latest release of InfoWorks WS Pro can be summed up by quoting faux-NASCAR driver Ricky Bobby: “I wanna go fast!” The Autodesk InfoWorks WS Pro product and development team have been shaking and baking over the last few months by making our already fast cloud simulations even faster in InfoWorks WS Pro2025.4. While we’ve…

    Product news

  • Autodesk launches free viewers for InfoWorks ICM and InfoWorks WS Pro

    Autodesk has launched free viewers for InfoWorks ICM and InfoWorks WS Pro, making hydraulic models and model results more accessible to wider team members. These new viewers provide a new way to visualize models and enable further collaboration between teams, for non-modelers and modelers alike who may need to view InfoWorks models to understand the…

    Product news